Imprinting a line on a surface?

[jrupnow]

Is there a command that will allow you to imprint a curve on a surface. It would be a curve or multiple curves in the middle of the surface. They are not all connected, so divide face will not work. The purpose is to use it as a cutter path after exporting as a .step file.

 

[JohnRBaker]

You can project a curve onto a surface.

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
Irvine, CA
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[jrupnow]

I know the curves can be projected. But I only want the solid body with the lines on the face of the solid. Is this possible in any way?

 

[JohnRBaker]

Do you mean that you want to create faces bounded by curves on the face of a solid body? You sound like you're describing an 'edge' on the face of a solid. You can do that, but the resulting body has to be manifold, which means an edge must be shared by two faces. Say you have a solid cube. You could have an edge which ran from the mid-point of one edge to the mid-point of another edge, splitting the face into two faces. But you cannot have an edge that starts at the mid-point of an edge and then ends somewhere in the middle of the face. Or an edge the starts and ends out on the middle of a face without intersecting that edges of the face of the cube. I hope you understand what I'm describing.

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without

 

[Toost]

For the solid modeler a curve which does not divide a surface is "not logical". Imagine taking a sheet of paper and ripping it half ways but not through.
it is defined in Parasolid as a "cut" or a "Spike" and should not exist since this does not exist in the manufactured world.(-It probably does even if I cannot think of an example now.) The paper is ½ torn why it has that rip and that rip is open, it would in a solid modeler consist of two edges, one on each side of the rip.
I think that for you to use the divide face, the curves must indeed divide the face.

Do not know if this helped or not.

Regards,
Tomas

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